I'm damned sick and tired of Junior Jerko equating 'unemployed' to ...

[TahitiNut]

... untrained and/or uneducated!!!

He's the least trained and least educa(ma)ted jerk-off that's even infested the White House. We have Masters- and Doctorate-degreed people flipping burgers! We now have the most overqualified and underpaid workforce since the Great Depression. It's NOT about training or education!

We have educated, trained, and experienced people being laid off every day!

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[TahitiNut]

1. Guess I'm the only one.

I'll just go beat my head against the wall, then. :silly:

[GinaMaria]

2. No you're not the only one

That was the most insulting thing he could have said to the American worker, especially IT workers. He really doesn't get it.

[Eye and Monkey]

4. Chimpie hears "unemployed" - automatically associates with "Welfare".

It's a common transference among rePubliCons.

[KlatooBNikto]

10. It is a good thing he didn't call you lazy.His professor at Harvard

said that he thinks poor people are lazy.I am sure he calls unemployed people uneducated and lazy.He is a wonder to behold.

[DBoon]

15. The only thing that would teah him otherwise

would be his own unemployment

[KlatooBNikto]

16. In order to become unemployed, you must be employed first.

[Algorem]

17. And you know Bush worked his way through school.Did he EVER have a

job?

[TahitiNut]

21. Junior did have summer jobs.

He "worked" for Baker Botts (beginning June 6, 1962), the law firm of James Baker, the Consigliere of the Bush Crime Family.

The induction of George W. Bush into the Texas crony network can be traced to a precise date: June 6, 1962. On that date, the gregarious 15-year-old went to work in the mailroom of Houston's oldest and most prestigious law firm, Baker Botts.

Four decades later, the financial/political symbiosis between the Bushes and Baker Botts is stronger than ever. Indeed, no law firm in America has profited more from its association with the two Bush Administrations than Baker Botts. Much of that influence stems from the firm's patriarch, the silver-maned, silver-tongued former Secretary of State, James A. Baker III. And now that Baker has joined George W. Bush's campaign--he is leading the negotiations with the Kerry campaign on the presidential debates--it's assured that he and a battalion of Baker Botts barristers are ready to man the ramparts in the event of another Florida recount scenario.

Nearly four years have passed since Baker stridently proclaimed that "the vote in Florida has been counted and then recounted. Governor George W. Bush was the winner of the vote. He was also the winner of the recount." It scarcely matters now that Baker's statement wasn't true: When Baker made that pronouncement, on November 11, 2000, the recount had not even begun in two of the four counties the Gore campaign had targeted. The important thing was that Baker stuck to the script. He also kept the entire Bush legal team--which included several Baker Botts lawyers--focused and determined to win at all costs. Shortly after Bush prevailed at the US Supreme Court in 2000, Baker told an interviewer, "I think all this talk about legitimacy is way overblown."

James A. Baker III has never doubted that the Bushes deserve to live in the White House. Their ties go back to the 1950s, when George H.W. Bush met Baker on the tennis courts at the Houston Country Club. At about the same time, Baker Botts began handling the legal work for Bush's company, Zapata Petroleum. It was a reasonable choice: Baker Botts is the second-oldest law firm west of the Mississippi. And since its founding, it has consistently represented the looters, polluters and plutocrats. Baker's great-grandfather Judge James A. Baker made his reputation by representing the infamous railroad robber baron Jay Gould, the man who tried to corner the gold market in 1869. Gould's shenanigans led to "Black Friday," when gold prices collapsed, financial panic ensued and the reputation of President Ulysses S. Grant, who had been duped by Gould, was ruined. After aligning itself with Gould, the law firm began specializing in railroad law. When oil began dominating Texas, Baker Botts began working for Big Oil.

[bunk76]

3. If this...

horse's ass wants to help put more "food on my family" he should support the minimum wage increase. :evilgrin:

[Mandate My Ass]

5. You're not the only one

It's the latest faux news sound byte, pitiful excuse, blame shifting, reverse-class-war rationale since the dawn of Reagan's "welfare queens" to come out of Wash D.C. to mask the deliberate labor devaluation of the new millenium.

:puke:

[OutsourceBush]

6. Why did Kerry not nail Chimp on this? Geesh!

I agree, the most educated workers are being outsourced.

Only jobs that are safe these days are doctors. I can't retrain for 10 years to be a doctor at my age. I have been doing computers for 20 years!

Democrats (Kerry and Edwards) need to slam Republicans when they pull this bull sh*t.

It doesn't matter how much education you have if you have to make 30k a year or better to survive in the US when people can make 25 cents an hour overseas with the same or less education doing the job, greedy Republican bastards will outsource you if we allow it to happen.

[TahitiNut]

9. Kerrry has more restraint than I have by far.

I would've climbed down his throat and ripped his esophagus out. :grr:


The pernicious meme of shifting the blame for unemployment onto the worker, while after-tax corporate profits and executive compensation are at all-time highs, while all the "self-trained" IT workers are forced to train their offshore replacements, is about to make me blow a gasket.

[GinaMaria]

24. glad you brought up the self trained issue

Most IT people are self taught. They may have degrees in finance or business, but their curiosity of technology drove them in another direction. These are incredibly smart, gifted, driven and talented people. They have been forced to train and teach others offshore to do their job cheaper. The cheaper labor isn't teaching itself.

Just another example of how out of touch * is with real Americans. He can pack his elitist bs and take it back to Crawford with him.

[KlatooBNikto]

13. Doctors are going to feel the pinch soon according to some

reports I have read.So, don't go train yourself again.

[Algorem]

18. Why can't people be diagnosed over the net from Bangladesh?

[The Blue Flower]

7. unemployed = uneducated

I was hoping Kerry would counter this, especially since bush and the dick said it multiple times.

[camero]

8. It's been a RW meme for years

And it could sort of work 20 years ago when the IT industry was just getting started but it's a no-brainer now. It was easy to say when it was manufacturing jobs that were being outsourced. Now, burger-flipping is considered manufacturing.

It's actually been in the last 20 years that the word "overqualified" has even been used. Bush is toast.

[DebJ]

11. Oh yeah I was screaming to the TV, what an insult!!!

[TahitiNut]

12. Yeah. I'm sure the neighbors heard me.

He's such a detestible, arrogant, incompetent nincompoop!

[hiphopnation]

22. Another one here, screaming at the TV last night.

When the issue of abortion came up and he went on about promoting a "culture of life" I lost it. In front of my four-year-old daughter too! Shame on me. I just couldn't accept that rubsih.

:argh: :grr::argh: :grr::argh: :grr::argh: :grr::argh: :grr::argh: :grr::argh: :grr::argh: :grr::argh: :grr::argh: :grr::argh: :grr:

[LSK]

14. dont forget that $300 you got in tax refund

Im sure Bush thinks you can live off that for a few months right? As clueless as he is....

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. My brother-in-law is a computer systems engineer.....

He has an MBA and years of experience in his field.

So what is his current job?

Driving a truck cross country. At age 64, he is on the road 10 - 12 days at a time with a weekend in between. Oddly enough, he is enjoying it...so far. My sister isn't.

[Cat Atomic]

20. Well you know, "not ALL poor people are murderers".

I know what you mean. Bush says things like that all the time that reveal a his arrogant, "let them eat cake" attitude.

[Coyote_Bandit]

23. MBA/JD Here

Laid-off along with about 30% of my co-workers and now unemployed for nearly two years. In the two years before I was laid-off I worked as a trust investment portfolio manager and was responsible for securities valued over $800 million.

I'm just surprised that W didn't tell me that the reason I don't have a job is because I have a bad attitude. Seems I've heard that line from all the religious right wingers I know (unfortunately we've got them in the extended family). These folks are into the name it claim it speak it into being interpretation of Scripture. Seems to me that mindset stifles recognition of problems and their possible solution.

At least I don't have to work with and for republicans everyday. There are definitely some advantages.

[MsConduct]

25. I agree, just shows how ignorant he really is! n/t

[Redleg]

26. I hear ya.

I have been studying workforce issues for a decade now and know that a bit more community college ain't going to help most people find meaningful and rewarding work.

[Chovexani]

27. Pisses me the hell off too

The thing is he has always spouted that kind of crap. I read Kitty Kelley's book and she mentioned several occasions when the Chimp made statements like that at Yale. He liked to equate poverty with stupidity, to the abject horror of his classmates.

That book will seriously tell you all you need to know about the Chimpy's diseased mind. It's fascinating (and downright scary).

[amazona]

28. me too

I almost threw a brick at the TV at the point but with my huge annual income in the high four figures I decided I couldn't afford to!